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Hello, I'm trying to make OpenRGV work on my ASUS TUF F15 and tried some suggestions from this [Reddit post](https://www.reddit.com/r/OpenRGB/comments/y5uqwb/cant_get_openrgb_to_work_on_my_laptop/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3 but it didn't work. I have installed OpenRGV with ppa:thopiekar/openrgb repository.

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[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago (13 children)

Does it work when you load them via modprobe?

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago (12 children)

Here is the result (sorry, I'm a low-level Ubuntu knowledge user ๐Ÿฅด) :

$ sudo modprobe openrgb
modprobe: FATAL: Module openrgb not found in directory /lib/modules/6.2.0-26-generic
[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago (11 children)

Openrgb isn't a kernel module. You should be loading i2c-dev, with modprobe i2c-dev

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

OK. I have tried modprobe i2c-dev but it does nothing.

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago (2 children)

If you mean there is no return in the terminal, this is normal. I know, it is counterintuitive, but it is like that. No return => module loaded

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

OK! ๐Ÿ‘ Thank you for explanations. But even if it is loaded, OpenRGB still says that it is not.

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Got Discord? I'm not the dev, but I'll try to help you if I can.

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)
[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

On the OpenRGB Discord community, in the only voice channel available.

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Oh... in a voice channel... Sorry but english is not my native language (french) and I'm afraid we won't understand each other very well. Thank you anyway for your help.

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

Don't worry, I'm French too.

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

You also need to load the i2c driver for your motherboard. i2c-dev is the framework for accessing i2c from userspace but does not provide the actual hardware interface. This is provided by another module. For Intel boards, this is i2c-i801. For AMD, this is i2c-piix4.

It doesn't hurt to load both.

sudo modprobe i2c-piix4

sudo modprobe i2c-i801

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Good to know. Strangely enough i2c-dev seem to be enough to detect my RAM, without loading i2c-piix4 (Asus Dark Hero). Those were the only devices not detected without i2c.

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

It's possible that i2c-piix4 is already being loaded for some reason or that the driver is compiled into your kernel rather than as a module. Kernel configurations vary across distros. Glad it's working either way!

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